Bon Echo is the development codename for Mozilla’s Firefox 2, an open-source web browser first released in 2006. Distributed as pre-release and nightly builds under the “Bon Echo” branding, it showcased the upcoming Firefox 2 features while following Mozilla’s trademark guidelines. Built on the Gecko rendering engine and available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Bon Echo emphasized standards compliance, performance, and security.
Notable capabilities introduced with Firefox 2/Bon Echo include phishing protection (Safe Browsing), session restore to recover open tabs and windows, inline spell checking in web forms, improved tabbed browsing with easier tab management, search suggestions in the built-in search box, feed preview and subscription handling, support for JavaScript 1.7, and a refreshed user interface. As with Firefox, Bon Echo was highly extensible through add-ons and backed by the Mozilla community.
Bon Echo is developed by Mozilla and is used by 3 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.0 beta and 2.0. The name of the program executable file is firefox.exe. Works with htm, html, mfp, xht, xhtml and shtml file types.
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